The Northern Forum's Walter Hickel Medal was established in accordance with the Resolution № 169 upon the initiative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) with the purpose of encouraging and appreciating the most distinguished people of the North for their contribution to the development of the regions and the Northern Forum.
Walter Hickel was twice the Governor of Alaska (1966-1969, 1990, 1994), Secretary of the Interior in Richard Nixon's Administration, and the First Chair of the Northern Forum (1992-1994). He made an outstanding contribution to the establishment and development of the Northern Forum. The Northern Forum became the first organization of regions which gave an incentive to the establishment of a number of large international organizations and the beginning of real cooperation in order to achieve sustainable development of the Arctic and the North.
The regulations of Walter Hickel Medal
Walter Hickel Medal Honours List
Mikhail Nikolaev
The First President of Sakha Republic (1991-2022)
Chairman of the Northern Forum (1997-2001)
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
The Fifth President of Iceland (1996-2016)
Hannele Pokka
The Fifth Governor of Lapland (1994-2008)
Chairman of the Northern Forum (2001-2005)
Mead Treadwell
Chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission (2006-2010)
The 11th Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (2010-2014)
Gennady Oleinik
Member of the Federation Council(Russia) (2013-2014)
Former Chairman of the Committee of Regional Coordinators from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Priscilla Wohl
Executive Director of the Northern Forum (2002-2013)
Anastasia Bozhedonova
Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Secretariat of the Northern Forum (1999-2013)
Deputy Executive Director of the Northern Forum (2003-2015)
Natalya Komarova
Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra (2010-at present)
Chairman of the Northern Forum (2023-at present)
Alexander Pelyasov
Goodwill Ambassador of the Northern Forum (2021-present)
Director General of the Regional Consulting Institute
Lars Kullerud
President of the University of the Arctic(UArctic) (2002-at present)
Nikolai Nakhodkin
Executive Director of the associated Secretariat of the Northern Forum in Yakutsk (1993-2006)
Head of the Rescue Service of the Republic of Sakha(Yakutia) (2007-2020)
Natalia Slugina
Head of the Department of International Relations of the Office of the Governor and Government of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Member of the Committee of Regional Coordinators of the Northern Forum from the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Halldór Jóhannsson
Director of the Arctic Portal
Director of the Northern Forum Foundation
Olga Stytsyuk
Teacher of history and world art, Talinka School, Oktyabrsky District
Chief Curator, Otrazhenie(Reflection) Museum and Education Center, Talinka Culture and Sports Center
Lyudmila Alferova
Director of the Torum Maa Openair Ethnography Museum
President of the Saving Yugra Public Organization
Member of the Russian Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North
Timofey Maldanov
Researcher of northern cultures
Alexander Mazharov
Vice-Governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug(2006-at present)
Director of External Relations Department of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (2006-at present)
Northern Forum Regional Coordinator